“Men are among the loneliest creatures. They lose their mothers and cannot carry children, and have nothing to comfort themselves with but their vestigial cockular appendages. This is perhaps the reason they move ever warward when they are not moving fuckward.” MenLoneliness Quotes Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“He was too beautiful. Way more beautiful than me and way more beautiful than a beautiful woman. Have you met these men? His too beautiful voice and his beautiful hands and his beautiful cock. But the beauty went all haywire on the inside because he thought he was shit. And that thinking he was shit? It transformed him into the exact opposite of me - the most passive man on the planet. Particularly around any kind of high energy or conflict. Which was basically me, in the flesh.” MenBeautiful Book:The Chronology of Water Source: The Chronology of Water
“What she thinks and feels is this: This is a world of men. They come into your country, they invade your home, they kill your family. They turn your body into the battlefield — the territory of all violence — all power — all life and death. And we take it. We do. We keep taking it. We have lost track of the reasons we do not slaughter the world of men, but we do not. Yes, there are good men. She sees the face of her father. She sees how the filmmaker loves the writer. She sees the yet-unwritten life of the writer’s son. She sees her. . brother. Beautiful smear. But it is the world of men that creates pure destruction. And this is a truth we cannot bear: Since we bear them into the world, we cannot kill them. Cannot be done with them. Cannot exile them into oblivion.” MenViolenceDestruction Book:The Small Backs of Children Source: The Small Backs of Children
“It is possible to make family any way you like. It is possible to love men without rage. There are thousands of ways to love men.” MenFamily Book:The Chronology of Water Source: The Chronology of Water
“Only the violent acts of men "count" toward something besides evil in a patriarchy. It is the male story of violence that is sanctioned both socially and aesthetically. The male hero and acts of heroism require violence. Everyone is okey dokey with that. We are only beginning to see that constricting set of truths open up a little.” MenLittlesStoriesEvilViolenceHeroMalesViolentHeroismPatriarchyViolent ActsActs Of Heroism Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“Birth is of course violent. Menstruation is violent. Trust me, if men's penises opened up once a month and shot blood, we'd be hearing about the violence of it.” IfsMenCoursesViolenceBloodMonthsBirthShotsHearingViolentTrust MeMenstruation Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“I'm in love with language again because Luke B. Goebel is not afraid to take us back through the gullet of loss into the chaos of words. Someone burns a manuscript in Texas; someone's speed sets a life on fire; a heart is beaten nearly to death, the road itself is the trip, a man is decreated back to his animal past--better, beyond ego, beautiful, and look: there's an American dreamscape left. There's a reason to go on.” MenLooksHeartReasonPastBeautifulLeftLanguageLossAnimalFireGoes OnEgoChaosSpeedTexasNot AfraidAmerican DreamBeatenManuscriptsLuke Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
